Table 5 The 20 most cited articles in the area of COVID-19 in Scopus from the Arab world
From: The Arab region’s contribution to global COVID-19 research: Bibliometric and visualization analysis
Ranking | Authors | Year | Source title | Cited by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | Hui et al. [47] | 2020 | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | 940 |
2nd | Rodriguez-Morales et al. [48] | 2020 | Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease | 642 |
3rd | Chu et al. [49] | 2020 | The Lancet | 538 |
4th | Alhazzani et al. [50] | 2020 | Intensive Care Medicine | 534 |
5th | Bedford et al. [51] | 2020 | The Lancet | 380 |
6th | Phua et al. [52] | 2020 | The Lancet Respiratory Medicine | 375 |
7th | COVIDSurg Collaborative [53] | 2020 | The Lancet | 285 |
8th | Petrosillo et al. [54] | 2020 | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | 259 |
9th | Elfiky [55] | 2020 | Life Sciences | 227 |
10th | Xu et al. [56] | 2020 | Viruses | 217 |
11th | Tahir ul Qamar et al. [57] | 2020 | Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis | 215 |
12th | Elfiky [58] | 2020 | Life Sciences | 213 |
12th | Alhazzani et al. [59] | 2020 | Critical Care Medicine | 213 |
14th | Al-Shamsi et al. [60] | 2020 | Oncologist | 177 |
15th | Khailany et al. [61] | 2020 | Gene Reports | 149 |
16th | Rabi et al. [62] | 2020 | Pathogens | 147 |
17th | Meo et al. [63] | 2020 | European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences | 146 |
18th | Zumla et al. [64] | 2020 | The Lancet | 141 |
19th | Bastard et al. [65] | 2020 | Science | 138 |
19th | Ashour et al. [66] | 2020 | Pathogens | 138 |